[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ELECTION TASK FORCE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on this Trump election task force--it 
just gets crazier and crazier with this administration. Yesterday, the 
White House announced that Trump and his election task force will 
reveal intelligence reports that supposedly corroborate his baseless 
lies about the 2020 election. Give me a break.
  Donald, start focusing on lowering Americans' costs, not on your 
conspiracy theory that the 2020 elections were stolen from you. You 
don't have proof. You haven't come up with proof for 6 years because 
there is no proof, Donald Trump. You haven't come up with the proof 
because it isn't there. There is no proof.
  Trump should get off all of this nonsense, all of this wishful 
thinking, all of this lunacy and focus on what people actually care 
about--their higher costs. If Trump thought about November 2026 half as 
much as he thinks about 2020, maybe his party wouldn't be scrambling 
right now.
  Apparently, Trump also plans to say that Senators Ossoff and Warnock 
were illegitimate because of election fraud. How desperate can Trump 
get? He is flailing. His effort to overturn what happened in 2020 is a 
mission impossible. He ought to wake up, smell the coffee, and abandon 
this frivolous, ludicrous, diversionary effort. Trump's obvious 
desperation might be amusing if it weren't so dangerous. Without 
question, it is part of Trump's effort to subvert the 2026 midterm 
elections.
  The whole reason Republicans are in their current mess is that Trump 
refuses to drop his radical SAVE Act--to strip millions of Americans of 
their voting rights. Trump has made clear, once again, who plans to 
force a shutdown--Donald Trump; yes, Donald Trump. Yesterday, Trump 
said Republicans have to get rid of the filibuster and pass the SAVE 
Act ``otherwise we're going to have a shutdown.'' That is what he said 
yesterday.
  So, Americans, hear this: If there is a shutdown, it is on Donald 
Trump's back.
  Donald, do you remember the last time you demanded a shutdown when 
Nancy and I were in your office? It didn't work out too well for you 
then, and it won't work out too well for you now.
  America, hear this: If there is a shutdown, it is on Donald Trump's 
back.
  Unless Trump changes his course, realizes the SAVE Act cannot pass, 
and starts working on more productive things, we could be headed for 
another Trump shutdown.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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